Tag Archives: Shaun Tan

Timely Questions

Posted on January 1, 2019 by rosinskynatalie

At the start of a new year, in our sometimes Kafkaesque world, it is good to realize that not all tales from the inner city are bad. What exactly do I mean by that remark? I hope you will be … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, picture books | Tagged animals, animals in cities, bureaucracy, canine history, cats, creativity, dogs, Franz Kafka, graphic adaptation, human imagination, humans and animals, In the Penal Colony, judicial system, justice, Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories, legal system, New Year, Peter Kuper, Shaun Tan, Tales from Outer Suburbia, Tales from the Inner City, The Hunger Artist, The Metamorphosis, Trumpesque | Leave a comment

More or Less Grimm

Posted on December 1, 2016 by rosinskynatalie

Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, and other festive occasions . . . . Two recent, compelling fairy tale volumes would make excellent gifts this holiday season. Matt Phelan’s Snow White: A Graphic Novel (2016) and Shaun Tan’s The Singing Bones … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, picture books, sculpture, Uncategorized | Tagged 1920s, 1930s, Adelita, Christmas, Cinderella, Depression era, Ed Young, fairy tales, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, Hanukkah, holiday gifts, Inari Kiuru, Inuit art, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, John Steptoe, Kwanzaa, Little Red Cap, Lon Po Po, Matt Dembicki, Matt Phelan, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, Neil Gaiman, New York City, papier-mache, Philip Pullman, photographs, photography, pre-Columbian art, sculpture, Shaun Tan, Snow White: A Graphic Novel, the brothers Grimm, The Singing Bones, three-dimensional art, Tomie de Paola, Wilhelm Grimm, Winter Solstice | Leave a comment

Twenty-first Century Genius

Posted on November 1, 2016 by rosinskynatalie

Two graphic novelists were among the twenty-three creative people recently awarded an annual MacArthur “Genius” grant, with its hefty prize money. The MacArthur Foundation “celebrates and inspires the creative potential of individuals through no-strings-attached fellowships.” I was delighted to see that … Continue reading →

Posted in biographies, graphic novels, weather | Tagged atom bomb, biography, Brian Selznick, Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Ellis, Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, climate change, collage, copper plate etching, cyanotype, dance, Doris Eaton Travis, Elicia Castaldi, Erik Drooker, Gene Luen Yang, history of science, Hollywood, Jennifer L. Holm, Last Living Star of the Ziegfe, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies, Lauren Redniss, Marie Curie, McArthur "Genius" award, memoir, Nobel Prize, nuclear medicine, nuclear power accidents, Ozge Samanci, Peter Kuper, Pierre Curie, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie A Tale of Love and Fallout, radioactivity, radium, science, Shaun Tan, TED Talk, Thunder & LIghtning: Weather Past Present and Future, weather, World War I, World War II, Ziegfeld Follies | Leave a comment

Recognizing Words . . . Reading Stories

Posted on April 2, 2015 by rosinskynatalie

Being illiterate was frustrating! In Japan last May, I could not read package labels in grocery stores and pharmacies, follow the directions posted on street maps, or understand the background information displayed on many museum exhibits. Japan’s written language is … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, picture books | Tagged all-ages picture book, Allen Ginsberg, Art Spiegelman, Bill Thomson, Blood Song--A Silent Ballad, Chalk, David Weisner, Erik Drooker, Flood! A Novel in Pictures, Frans Masereel, Franz Kafka, Gods' Man, Howl, illiteracy, illiterate, immigrant, immigration, Japanese, Kanji Pict-O-Graphics, Lynd Ward, Maus, Michael Rowley, New York City, Otto Nuckel, Peter Kuper, picture book audiences, picture books, reading, Shaun Tan, Si Lewen, The Arrival, The Metamorphosis, The System, Tuesday, wordless books, Wordless!, World War III Illustrated | Leave a comment

Summertime Lessons

Posted on August 8, 2014 by rosinskynatalie

It’s summer and school vacation time here in the Northern Hemisphere. In Australian author/illustrator Shaun Tan’s ‘neighborhood,’ though, December through February are the warmest months, bringing students their long school vacation. Regardless of this geographical difference, both Tan and the … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, picture books | Tagged Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki, Oscars, Rules of Summer, Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing, This One Summer | Leave a comment